For those wondering what typically defines the cyberpunk literary genre, its key elements include:
High-tech, low-life scenarios: Advanced technology, such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, is prevalent, but it exists alongside widespread societal breakdown and poverty.
Dystopian future:
The settings are typically bleak and oppressive, often dominated by powerful corporations or decentralized, corrupt power structures.
Impact of technology on humanity:
Cyberpunk explores how technology shapes society, culture, and individual identity .
Antiheroes and rebellion:
Characters are often morally ambiguous rebels fighting against oppressive systems.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
I hate to break it to you but cyberpunk is a critique of today’s world. Tomorrow can always get much worse.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Today’s world is a toe dipped in the lake of cyberpunk critique.
Transhumanism is, for the most part, still a crackpot fringe theory. Most of us aren’t brainchipped, and there are still recognizable human interactions on the web.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
To be fair, I don’t see anyone not even more evil than Epstein over there, ruling the world. And unless you rule the world, the worst of us eventually will. So being VERY transhuman, might actually be the only way to win.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
If you’re referring to multilateralism, international law, and rules-based-order, I’d agree. We already had that and it (mostly) worker since the second half of the 20th Century. Although there was still a lot of room for improvement, but now we’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.
But if you mean some well-intentioned do-gooder should conquer everybody and enforce their own standard of decency, then I’d say that’s a slippery slope and self-contradictory. Well-intentioned people don’t conquer the world.